The Effects of Threonine Phosphorylation on the Stability and Dynamics of the Central Molecular Switch Region of 18.5-kDa Myelin Basic Protein

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Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Vassall, Kenrick A ^a   Bessonov, Kyrylo ^a,c   De Avila, Miguel ^a   Polverini, Eugenia ^b   Harauz, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PROLINE; THREONINE; TRIFLUOROETHANOL;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR SWITCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; MICE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROLINE-RICH PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMODYNAMICS; THREONINE; WATER;

MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879836180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068175     Document Type: Article

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